eSchool Today
E School Today: What Is an Ecosystem?
Learn about all the different levels of ecosystems, from the living things under a rock, up to a rainforest biome. Explains the levels of organization within an ecosystem, the different types of biomes, food chains and trophic levels,...
National Geographic
National Geographic: Sorting the Gulf Ecosystem
In this activity, students sort images of organisms into categories such as birds, reptiles, plants, invertebrates, etc. Next they examine the provided poster of the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem and categorize organisms they identify. A...
National Geographic
National Geographic: Ecosystem Imbalance in the World
In this instructional activity, students build on their knowledge of individual impacts on the ocean to see how the whole system can react to threats and changes. They examine ways in which human actions throw marine ecosystems out of...
National Geographic
National Geographic: Biodiversity in a Wetland Ecosystem
In this lesson, students learn about the biodiversity of a wetlands ecosystem, then focus on the Barataria Preserve near New Orleans. They then research five species that live there, and follow up by trying to identify the land type in...
Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy: Can Fire Positively Impact an Ecosystem?
In this lesson, learners explore controlled burn scenarios and the positive impacts of fire on ecosystems.
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: The State of Ecosystems
Christian Samper details The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a report highlighting the detrimental impact of human life on the ecosystems of Earth over the past fifty years. Ecosystems have been deteriorating from a variety of waste and...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Food Chains Moving Matter in an Ecosystem (Day 1)
Students will create a food chain model and use it to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment. Resources include a detailed lesson plan, student handouts, pictures of a completed chain,...
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Changing With the Times: Variation Within Ecosystems
A tutorial investigating how living organisms in an ecosystem are affected by environmental changes.
Other
Western North Carolina Vitality Index: Ecosystem Threats
The forests of Western North Carolina are threatened by a wide variety of environmental stressors and disturbances, such as insects, disease, invasive species, drought, fire, hurricanes, tornadoes, and ice storms. A stressor is any kind...
University of California
University of California Berkeley: Ecosystem Equilibrium
A simulator reviewing over the concepts of ecosystem equilibrium.
Other
Marietta College: Biology: Energy Flow Through the Ecosystem
Read to understand how energy and inorganic nutrients flow through a food chain in an ecosystem.
Utah STEM Foundation
Utah Stem Action Center: Great Salt Lake Ecosystem
This lesson plan provides an eight-day flow of educational activities in which learners use the Great Salt Lake ecosystem to explore food webs and how changes in living and nonliving factors affect different populations.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Environments and Ecosystems
Learners explore the biosphere and its associated environments and ecosystems in the context of creating a model ecosystem, learning along the way about the animals and resources. Students investigate different types of ecosystems, learn...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Zoogoer Magazine: Wolves Change an Ecosystem
Jim Robbins's article, "Weaving A New Web: Wolves Change An Ecosystem" focuses on the research and findings of biologist Robert Crabtree and his organization, Yellowstone Ecosystem Studies, in looking at wolves and coyotes.
Oswego City School District
Regents Prep: Ecosystems/communities
Abiotic factors vary in the environment and determining the types and numbers of organisms that exist in that environment. Factors which determine the types and numbers of organisms of a species in an ecosystem are called limiting...
Climate Literacy
Clean: Climate Change and Ecosystems
Young scholars research the inter-dependencies among plants and animals in an ecosystem and explore how climate change affects those relationships and the ecosystem as a whole.
University of Texas at Austin
Univ. Of Texas: Texas Memorial Museum: Creating a Freshwater Ecosystem [Pdf]
An activity where students create a mobile that represent a freshwater ecosystem that appears in nature. Requires Adobe Reader [PDF].
The Wonder of Science
The Wonder of Science: Ms Ls2 4: Ecosystem Interactions and Dynamics
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard MS-LS2-4: ecosystem interactions and dynamics.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Marine Ecosystems and Biodiversity
In this unit young scholars explore major marine ecosystems by locating them on maps. Students use marine examples to learn about energy transfer through food chains and food webs and then they discuss how food webs can illustrate the...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Ecosystems
Gives basic information about the community that forms between living and non-living factors that function together in an ecosystem. [47 secs]
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Recycling Matter in Ecosystems
Students learn about biogeochemical cycles that recycle matter on Earth.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Monitoring Life in the Rocky Intertidal Ecosystem
This activity will allow students to learn the sampling techniques used in the field by citizen scientists who participate in LiMPETS, five national marine sanctuaries along the West Coast.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Limiting Factors in the Desert Ecosystem
Describes conditions in a desert that limit how large populations of species can grow.
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